Since his first game as a freshman, when he dropped 21 on Gardner Webb, to last year when he won Multiple Awards, most notably Naismith National Player of the year Award, speculation has surfaced that Tyler Hansbrough will go down as one of the greatest college basketball players of All-Time. He definitely has the numbers and Awards to prove it. He won 15 total awards last season as a junior, he had the highest scoring average at UNC with 26.9 since Charlie Scott had 27.1 in 1969-70 and broke a 51 year old school record held by Lennie Rosenbluth’s for made free throws. But personally to be dubbed the best player in the history of any sport I think you need to lead your team to a Championship, something Hansbrough has never done. With Hansbrough UNC doesn’t even have a Final Four appearance. They’ve had 2 # 1 seeds when he was a sophomore and a junior as well # 3 seed when he was just a freshman. But still there is nothing to show for it. If you look at the top 3 players in College basketball history, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) – UCLA, Bill Walton – UCLA and Bill Russell - San Francisc
o, they all hold Multiple National Championships. So even if Tyler Hansbrough leads UNC to the title game at the beginning of April it still wont catapult him to the top of the list of greatest College Basketball Players.
So where does this leave him?
Depending on what UNC does this year in the March Madness tourney this year will better determine where Hansbrough will finish as greatest College players. A national Championship will give him a better shot of being in the top echelon of such a prestiges group. But if history repeats himself and UNC falters in late March and early April after starting the year as a # 1 seed (according to the Associated Press) than it would be hard for Hansbrough to crack the top 10 maybe even the top 20.
o, they all hold Multiple National Championships. So even if Tyler Hansbrough leads UNC to the title game at the beginning of April it still wont catapult him to the top of the list of greatest College Basketball Players.So where does this leave him?
Depending on what UNC does this year in the March Madness tourney this year will better determine where Hansbrough will finish as greatest College players. A national Championship will give him a better shot of being in the top echelon of such a prestiges group. But if history repeats himself and UNC falters in late March and early April after starting the year as a # 1 seed (according to the Associated Press) than it would be hard for Hansbrough to crack the top 10 maybe even the top 20.
By Nelson "Demon Seed" Swan
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